An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path. References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660
Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1649452] Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1649451]
Patch: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/d2f5d424ba8752f9a9e9dad410546ec1b46caa0a
Statement: This issue affects the versions of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-19060